{"id":780,"date":"2010-04-04T20:59:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T03:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobilegenealogy.com\/?p=780"},"modified":"2010-04-04T20:59:29","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T03:59:29","slug":"iheritage-genealogy-app-for-the-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobilegenealogy.com\/2010\/04\/04\/iheritage-genealogy-app-for-the-ipad\/","title":{"rendered":"iHeritage – Genealogy App for the iPad"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"iHeritage<\/a> I’ve been wondering when a dedicated genealogy application (“app”) or software would be available for the new Apple iPad which launched yesterday. I didn’t expect too much at first – it took a bit for genealogy apps on the iPhone to build up steam, and technically some\/all genealogy apps that are available for the iPhone and iPod Touch *should* work on the iPad so there certainly isn’t a lack of genealogy software at this point. Online genealogy websites or software that don’t rely on Adobe’s Flash should work just fine as well on the iPad. When I say dedicated, I mean one that is going to take advantage of the iPad’s resolution and\/or performance.<\/p>\n

Low and behold, there is in fact a dedicated genealogy app for the Apple iPad – it’s called iHeritage<\/a> from Our Mountain of Ideas. It’s available now for $2.99 and you’ll have to access it through the App Store. I didn’t see it before now since a lot of the iPad apps weren’t made available in the App Store until this weekend.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately I don’t have an iPad to test it out at the moment – I’m waiting for the 3G-equipped iPad that’s due out later this month. Don’t ask me how I’m holding out – it’s tough, I got to play with an iPad earlier today and was quite impressed.<\/p>\n

I also can’t tell you much about it – the App Store description is lacking. What I can tell you is that it requires an iPad and it runs on iPhone OS 3.2 or later. Once we hear more from the developers, we’ll let you know.<\/p>\n

It does look to be more of a “visual” style of app, and a lightweight genealogy app at that. All of the data maybe contained in the iPad itself. It may also require all of the data to be entered on the iPad. I don’t want to judge too harshly since I know very little about it, but from what I’m seeing it’s just a fun little visual app that maybe more suitable to non-genealogists. If it supported GEDCOMs or linking to other genealogy software or websites, I would have thought they might have mentioned it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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